"Help, Help!  I'm being Oppressed!"

- Monty Python

Steel doesn't burn!  Taser's don't sting! 

Countdown to when he is on a talk show?  Tonight?  Where is Keith?

Kemp

Man, how I wish Kerry was running again. 

On the other hand, he came waaaay too close to becoming President (well, 100 electoral votes would've been too close in my book), so I guess I shoudl be careful what I wish for.

This kid won't get a dime.

The school should take a close look at whether he should be allowed back on campus. 

I would love to hear from these officers now that Kerry is condemning the arrest.  What a fucking retard he is.

This obviously disturbed moonbat maybe didn't intend physical harm to Kerry but he didn't fucking know that!  Those cops could have potentially saved him from injury.

So he comes out against the side of law and order and on the side of someone that could have done him harm.

Yeah...it would have been great to have him as President dealing with Iran.  Good God, he's an idiot.

"Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well," said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. "If you don't, you get tasered in the ass."

Later, Kerry bactracked, "It was a botched joke."

Is it tased or tasered?

Uhh...well if you want to get all formal, I think the verb is "electrocuted".

I saw those Private Security Contractors wearing fragmented skulls from that mass grave they uncovered near the University Commons.  And we laughed as they tasered one of the deformed retards over in the Engineering building cafeteria.

Don't hate the messenger.

Just heard on ABC radio news that the police are going to charge him with Resisting Arrest With Violence(?), a felony so they said.

plus they are actually playing the full dont-taser-me-bro to the whiny-bitch screams *before* talking over it now.  Awesome.

Good thing this didn't happen during his presidential run, or he'd be swaggering down to the nearest gun shop, drawlin' "can I get me a taserin' licence here?" in his best good ol' boy from down home in Cotuit manner.  John Forbes Kerry - living proof that someone can actually be a bigger douchenozzle than Ted Kennedy.

Like I said to Ace the other night, I don't know why the people of Massachusetts keep sending these two morons back to the Senate, but I'm looking forward to the wails of despair when Splash kicks off and Massachusetts loses a pantload of seniority and federal greenbacks.  It'll serve the moonbats right.

the cops love tasering way too much.

That's because tasering is fun. It's a perk of the job.

I think it is damn scary that something like that can happen to anyone who asks questions.  I recall a lady who asked Senator Hillary Clinton about Juanita Broaddrick.  That story is here.

So if you have valid media credentials then you can act like a pig (i.e. David Gregory) when you ask questions.  But if you are asking controversial questions (even ones from a delusional punk), you can be escorted out.  If you resist, you can be arrested or tasered. 

Frank Werts,

The guy was resisting arrest which is a considerably bigger deal than asking a question.  And he wasn't getting arrested for asking a question either.

I don't understand anyone defending this asshole's disorderly conduct and willfully ignoring the initial admonitions from the security guards.

Even if the guy didn't plan on causing a scene and becoming a youtube star, he's at fault for those two reasons right there.

If anyone here is pretending that this guy was just asking questions and was not at fault isn't watching the same video I am.

Frank,

So it's ok for a kid with an agenda to rush the microphone because he was too far back in line and then "get his message out" while disrupting the event? Kerry was just trying to save face, he knew how it would look if he didn't address the rants of the little moonbat. The kid was asked what his question was and he said that he would ask a question after he informed the crowd of his views. 

The cops were standing there because the kid was already out of line.  They waited until the kid made a comment about "blowjobs" and then tried to escort him out.  He resisted -- violently.  They had no choice but to respond in kind.

The kid got what he deserved and now he will face felony charges -- as he deserves. 

It was a planned stunt.  He's used to getting away with his little tantrums and enjoys the attention.  This time -- he got hit in the face with a big clue bat.

And he wasn't getting arrested for asking a question either.

Why was he being yanked away from the microphone by security? Because a man in a suit (next to the mic) made a gesture to security to remove him (watch the video again).  Why was that necessary when Kerry was willing to answer them? I agree, he shouldn't have resisted.  But since when is asking questions deemed disorderly conduct? Oh, I see.  It is only disorderly because of the paranoia-laced content in the question. 

It was all over the top.

Belle,

Not even close. Have you watched the longer version of the video and read the accounts from people that were actually there?

He had done enough to be kicked out before he even started talking. The rest is just icing on the cake. They were being patient with him until he made it obvious that he wasn't going to stop until he got some kind of reaction.

He should have been removed the second he pushed past the line waiting to speak and grabbed the microphone.

What are we now, a society of spoiled brats who can do whatever they want no matter the consequences?

Belle,

The hands in the air thing is taught at moonbat protest school. It has nothing to do with showing that you have no weapons.  He pulled away violently and moved towards the stage before that.

Read the witness accounts and get back to us.  He did enough to get tossed before the video starts.

And, my "not even close" comment was directed toward your comment #35, not your reply to me.

Not trying to give you a hard time, but if you read about everything this kid did up to that point, you may feel differently about how the university police reacted.

Mesa,

I'm afraid I have never attended moonbat school and wasn't aware that those gestures were symbolic of such.

I'm reading the witness accounts now.  It appears the videos are being edited to only show one perspective.  Unfortunately, that is the one that Ace posted and that I watched.  It is also one I watched on a different site yesterday.  Perhaps it was a poor rush to judgment based on the evidence presented.  I agree with you that rushing the microphone was enough to bring out the security. 

I stand corrected.

Other Lessons to Draw from this Incident:

Lots of people voice opinions based on the evidence presented to them at that time.  Everyone at some point has jumped to an erroneous conclusion.  People are capable of persuaded when they open their mind and review additional facts as they come to light. 

(It isn't always necessary to point out the obvious.)

I saw was him trying to run free of their grabbing him

When law enforcement personnel grab you, 'tyring to run free' is called resisting arrest.

Besides, the first few times he tried to run free he tried to run free back to the mic.

It seemed obvious that he wasn't interested in asking questions because he could have done that peacefully.  And in a fashion reminiscent of Jenghis Khan if he wanted.  Kerry said he would stay and answer everyone's questions so the guy had no reason to go ape shit.  Unless, of course, that's what he was there to do.

When it became obvious that the guy was there precisely to cause a disturbance; to have a confrontation with police; to get his attention-starved ass on TV...what do you expect the cops to do?

This isn't romper room for God's sake.

I'm shocked that there are people here giving this jackass sympathy.

It was a simple case of them giving the fucker what he was asking for.  This has nothing to do with free speech or his right to question government officials.  If anyone believes that you're incredibly naive. 

OW! OW! OW! OW! OW!

FUCKIN AWESOME! I'm in tears.

I'm going to make that my ringtone.

Hemingway is one M.

(Also, u all suxx and talk from ur parens basetment.)

When a person gets admitted to a hospital, instead of poking a new hole everytime they want to inject the meds, they put in one catheter tube, and inject all the meds throught that one tube. Nice idea.

On similar lines, I wonder if electrodes should be grafted on some people to make it easy to taser them as and when necessary. Just a thought.

I agree Sticky B.  I wouldn't mind seeing him star in the off-broadway production of The Rodney King Story.

If you're asking for trouble, I think you give up your right to cry about how much trouble you get.

First, it should be tazered with extra z's for length of time electrocuted. So I'd say this guy got tazzzered.

And I think this is a false flag conspiracy, an inside job, to distract us from the positive reports coming out of Iraq.

When law enforcement personnel grab you, 'tyring to run free' is called resisting arrest.

Not if they have no justification for grabbing you in the first place. 

Unfortunately for the screaming pussy, they had ample reason in the first place.

He hops the line, hogs the mike, fillibusters until the mic is cut, refuses several requests by uniformed guards for him to leave, then violently resists escort toward the door, then attempts to re-enter and runs straight through security personnel approaching the stage where Kerry is, then resists more escorting. Then resists having handcuffs put on him.

All while screaming and twitching about all bug-eyed talking about Skull & Bones conspiracies.

I didn't see anywhere on any of these videos where they clearly instructed him to leave the room, and gave him an opportunity to leave voluntarily

Did you try watching it with your eyes open?

I did that once. I bought a new computer moniter and it didn't work so I got all pissed off and called the support line and it turned out I just had my eyes closed.

Seriously though.

No really.

That video is glorious. I'd pay $8 to watch that in a theater.

I'd pay $8 to watch that in a theater.

I'd have to agree that it is far more entertaining than any of the crapola that Hollywood produces these days.  Not sure it is worth 8 bucks, but it has made me laugh all day.

One Flew Over the Moonbat's Nest.

um, do moonbats nest?

Bruce, No. I didn't read your comments before I posted mine.  Not that I owe you an explanation, but because I'm courteous like that, I will.  I was doing some research to find the links for the comments that I was in the progress of posting (re: Hillary Clinton).  Your comments were posted before I refreshed the screen (after I completed my post), but after I began typing up my comments.  If you'll notice later (comments 36 and 40) I conceded the points made and stood corrected.  I also added more video footage in links to support the points made.

Now, the not-so-courteous side of me will tell you to take your condescending ass off your shoulders and get over it.  How would you like your crow? I have some I can share with you.

It's like the Iran/Iraq war.  I think there's room here to despise all parties. 

Kerry, on general principles.

The kid is a self-evident douchebag, it's clear that he's there to propagandize and to self-aggrandize.  Also, he's whiny and wimpy and roundly unsympathetic.

OTOH, if he's out of order shouldn't someone on the podium tell him so?  There's a guy in a suit behind the cops who's making eye contact with someone else, and these two seem to agree that it's time to end the diatribe.  But all of this happens behind the speaker.  And the girl cop reaches from behind him to grab his arm.  So all of a sudden he's being manhandled before anyone has asked him to shut up and leave.  He, of course, doesn't react well.

But still, the cops are atrocious.  As someone upthread pointed out, good policing would involve clear body language and projection of authority to defuse the situation.  They're grabbing him before there's even a situation to defuse.  And the tazering was just over the top. 

If douchebaggery is an arrestable and tazerable offense the streets are going to be pretty well empty and the prison population very twitchy.

Phinn please,

CJS does not apply to law enforcement.  You are ignoring his obvious intent to cause a disturbance. The school was well within it's rights to remove him and as soon as he started resisting they are obligated to use reasonable force to detain him.  They probably would have just escorted him off the premises until he threw his tantrum.

Comment 22 is surely a parody of "Howl" by 60s druggie Allen Ginsburg:

I saw those Private Security Contractors wearing fragmented skulls from that mass grave they uncovered near the University Commons.  And we laughed as they tasered one of the deformed retards over in the Engineering building cafeteria.

We'll call it "Squeal" 

Bruce,

No problem.  I extend my apologies also.  This matter caused quite a stir of emotions, particularly from people with legal backgrounds and law enforcement backgrounds.